Bara Kolenc: ATELIER

»Karla all of a sudden finds herself unable to control the language, bursting out of her body. Words come pouring in a violent and increasingly louder manner, rising up to ever higher frequencies, whereas her body remains to be paralysed as a statue, tense and still. While kneeling beside Karla her sister Štefi holds a glass to her ear to touch Karla’s body, to eavesdrop on it and to travel across it. Finally, she presses the glass next to Karla’s lips and catches her words with this gesture; her hand placed onto the glass as if catching a moth on the white wall. /-/ The focal point of the described scene, taken from performance Atelier by the choreographer Bara Kolenc, emerges on the basis of the sound and the illocutionary power of language, which manages to subordinate the body in direct encounter with the latter. The act of subordination occurs within the porous arena of contact between the body, the inside and the outside. It occurs where sound turns into silence and where audibility turns into obedience.« Bojana Kunst

Author: Bara Kolenc
Performers and collaborators: Alja Kapun, Gregor Luštek/Beno Novak, Dragana Bulut/Irena Tomažin/Katra Kodela, Radovan Jaušovec, Bara Kolenc
Dramaturgical consulting: Bojana Kunst
Music and sound design: Matevž Kolenc
Light design: Miran Šušteršič
Set design: Blaž Bačar
Set assistant: Boštjan Tašner/Andrej Zupančič
Costume design: Iztok Hrga
Graphic design: Atej Tutta
Photography: Andrej Mavrič, Nik Rovan, Atej Tutta
Executive production: Mateja Adamič
Postproduction: Milan Vračar
Technical director: Blaž Bačar
Technical assistant: Bor Pungerčič
Production: KUD Samosvoj
Coproduction: Društvo Mesto žensk, Bunker, KUD Pozitiv